Olaf Scholz has ended his dithering over whether to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. But the German chancellor’s hesitancy has already done damage to the cohesion of the EU, the Western alliance, and Germany’s relations with eastern Europe, France and the US. Ukrainians feel once more abandoned by the Germans.
I hear people arguing that Scholz is surreptitiously supporting Russia while pretending to support Ukraine. We can never be sure what is going on in Scholz’s head. We do not know whether he is lying, follows a hidden agenda, or whether he is simply weak and inconsistent.
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